January 14, 2017

2017 Scrapbook: Week One

I'm so excited to show you my first week of my 2017 scrapbook! I did really good at the first part of last year of keeping up with my weekly spreads, but I still have several weeks to finish. I'm determined this year to stay current with my pages weekly. With owning my own printer now, I think this will be even easier.

This first week of the new year was pretty exciting. In the first week, I got both a new car and a new job, so everything is feeling pretty new and fresh. It feels good!

We wanted to try out the new car on a road trip, so we drove up to Flagstaff for a little day trip. I knew I wanted to use the weather report card from Elle's Studio January kit, so I decided to keep the blue theme for the whole spread. I love that the shades of blue tied together supplies from multiple companies to create a cohesive feel. I'm trying something new this year by switching up with pocket page styles, so I'm excited to see how that goes. I really love the 3x3 pocket pages, so you might end up seeing that a lot in my album.

Grant and I are doing Whole30 together, so I wanted to document some pieces of that in my album. I'm also working on reading (or listening to) one book every week, so you can see that documented as well. I love how Kelly Purkey has a photo of herself at the start of every week, so I wanted to start that as well. I almost never have photos of myself or take photos of myself and I wanted to include them in my album more. I could probably count on one hand the amount of photos of myself in my 2016 scrapbook. I'm hoping this will help me change that.

I really want to make books a priority this year, so I'm still adding them to my albums along with a little review of each book. This year, I'm adding numbers to the photos of the books, so I can track my progress on 52 books for the year. This week, I read my first book, so I added a little gold one. My book review stamp is from Kelly Purkey's shop, but it's sold out. Elle's Studio has a book stamp set in stock, if you've been wanting one! You can find it here.

I gave Flagstaff half of the layout, because it was such a fun day! For this page, I mostly used the January kit from Elle's Studio. The weather report card was such a fun way to document the details from our day trip. I also used the date stamp set to add the temperature and date for the day.

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2017 Scrapbook: Week One

I'm so excited to show you my first week of my 2017 scrapbook! I did really good at the first part of last year of keeping up with my weekly spreads, but I still have several weeks to finish. I'm determined this year to stay current with my pages weekly. With owning my own printer now, I think this will be even easier.

This first week of the new year was pretty exciting. In the first week, I got both a new car and a new job, so everything is feeling pretty new and fresh. It feels good!

We wanted to try out the new car on a road trip, so we drove up to Flagstaff for a little day trip. I knew I wanted to use the weather report card from Elle's Studio January kit, so I decided to keep the blue theme for the whole spread. I love that the shades of blue tied together supplies from multiple companies to create a cohesive feel. I'm trying something new this year by switching up with pocket page styles, so I'm excited to see how that goes. I really love the 3x3 pocket pages, so you might end up seeing that a lot in my album.

Grant and I are doing Whole30 together, so I wanted to document some pieces of that in my album. I'm also working on reading (or listening to) one book every week, so you can see that documented as well. I love how Kelly Purkey has a photo of herself at the start of every week, so I wanted to start that as well. I almost never have photos of myself or take photos of myself and I wanted to include them in my album more. I could probably count on one hand the amount of photos of myself in my 2016 scrapbook. I'm hoping this will help me change that.

I really want to make books a priority this year, so I'm still adding them to my albums along with a little review of each book. This year, I'm adding numbers to the photos of the books, so I can track my progress on 52 books for the year. This week, I read my first book, so I added a little gold one. My book review stamp is from Kelly Purkey's shop, but it's sold out. Elle's Studio has a book stamp set in stock, if you've been wanting one! You can find it here.

I gave Flagstaff half of the layout, because it was such a fun day! For this page, I mostly used the January kit from Elle's Studio. The weather report card was such a fun way to document the details from our day trip. I also used the date stamp set to add the temperature and date for the day.